Hello Year 1 and welcome to our class page!

Our Teachers

In our class our teacher is Miss Prior and our teaching assistant is Mrs Cooper. 
Our lunchtime assistant is Mrs Ballon.

Start and Finish Times

Door opens at 8.45am

Door closes at 9:00am.

Home time is at 3.15pm

P.E. 

Our P.E. days are Mondays and Fridays. Your child can come into school wearing their PE kit on these days. 

PE kit is white tshirt, black shorts/leggings/joggers and plain trainers/pumps. They must wear their school jumper/cardigan, NOT another type of hoody/jacket. 

Snacks

Fruit is provided for free at break time, or you can bring in your own healthy snack from home. This could be some fruit, vegetable, rice cake etc. Every child should have their own water bottle for in class.

Reading Books and Homework

Please bring your child's reading book(s) in every day, even when it's not your day to change your book. You should try to read for 5/10 minutes at home every night. If you read at home x3 times a week with your child, please sign their diary so they can earn their stickers and rewards.   The record books/diaries have a phonics section in the middle and a word list too that you can use to check off. Please practice these regularly. 

Homework and spellings are given out every Friday.
Homework is due in the following Wednesday and we have our spelling tests on Fridays.

Please support your child at home with their reading, spellings and homework. 

On Monday we visit our school library where we can change our library book. Please remember to bring your library book into school every Monday! This book is to read for pleasure. So grown ups/older children are welcome to read these books out loud to your child. 

Class Dojo

Please check Class Dojo regularly as we often send messages out on there. If you need us please also don’t hesitate to send us a message.  Each week we post a weekly update about our learning. 

Spring 1 Learning

In Writing we are writing animal descriptions based on the book, 'There's an ouch in my pouch.' 

In Maths we are learning about place value within 20. This involves counting, reading and writing numbers up to 20. Then we move onto addition and subtraction up to 20. 

In Science we are learning about Animals including humans. We are also looking at weather and seasonal changes. 

In RE our big question is 'What makes some places sacred?'

In PSHE we are learning about looking after ourselves.

In Music, we are learning about sound patterns. 

In Geography our topic is 'What is it like to live in Shanghai?'

In Art we are learning drawing skills. 

In History we are learning about Queen Elizabeth II. 

In P.E we have 2 topics, Fitness and Team Building. 

Things that you can do at home
 
Read every day! Practice phonics and tricky/high frequency words regularly to build up their sight vocabulary.  Read alien words too! 
 
 

Online resources 

www.topmarks.co.uk- loads of good games for all maths units.  

www.ictgames.com-  lots of games to explore and resources.  This is probably best on a laptop, I haven't tried it on a phone. 

White Rose app (this is really good!) It's called 1 Minute Maths. I really recommend this. 

Primary resources, homework help and online games - BBC Bitesize This is good for Science and History topics. 

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science  Direct link to Science..  You can select the current topic for Science, watch a video and complete a quiz.